Making its HD debut on Symbian is one of Gameloft’s franchise games, Assassin’s Creed. For those of you who’ve played this on consoles and handhelds, you know exactly what to expect - running around the ancient middle east, jumping a fair bit, and swinging your sword around as you seek out ancient relics. You'll be glad to know that you’re going to get the full experience on Symbian. Here's what else is on offer in our review of the latest HD game for Symbian^3.
Those Mobile Fun folks are pretty good at digging out weird and wonderful accessories for our smartphones. In this case, a Bluetooth Cassette adapter, for those older cars like mine which haven't quite made it to the CD age yet. Pair this with your phone, stick it into your car's cassette slot and you're away with stereo music direct to your car amp and speakers. Perfect for those without an FM transmitter in their phone or for whom there's simply too much FM interference? In theory. Unfortunately..... Here's my review.
It looks like the Nokia N8 and C7 are turning into petrol heads. Not happy with having the Top Gear Christmas specials downloaded via iPlayer (or from the dark corners of the internet) it’s now time for me to look at another racing game for the Symbian^3 platform. It's the turn of.... Asphalt 5... [Jeremy Clarkson voice ON] HD!
Appropriate for Christmas-tide, this all-time family classic board game is revived in graphics-accelerated, super-swish form for Symbian^3 phones. It's a port from the iPhone version, or at least from common code, but that's not enough to put much of a dent in a stellar title that impresses in almost every way. Monopoly Classic HD is faithful to the 'proper' rules (but you can 'tweak' them if your family is used to your own 'variant'!) and you can play against up to three computer or human opponents. Read on for my review.
There’s rather a lot of online radio out there, but a simple solution could be in front of you. Aupeo offers a number of free genre channels via the Ovi Store to listen to streams on your smartphone. Is this the answer to making internet radio accessible on your mobile? Almost.
This weekend I finally managed to see Tron Legacy in 2D (sorry, but the 3D hurts my eyes and I’m Scottish so why would I spend more money to watch something that causes me pain?). Anyway, as the film opens, Sam Flynn is pimping the Nokia N8 as a virus-uploading magic door-opening tool. That’s product placement for you (all Psion managed was the Series 3a as the bomb timer in Executive Decision). To go along with all the advertising, Nokia has rolled out a bundle of Tron goodies on the Ovi Store, and one of them caught my eye: Tron Tanks.
Licensed by Nokia, initially just for its N8 flagship, RealGolf 2011 HD would have been well worth snapping up even if not already free. Though not perfect (putting is fiddly, too much help in shot power, and loading screens are slow), it's still one of the best phone or handheld-based golf games I've ever played and, as you might expect, I've taken great delight in playing through it in considerable detail below, while writing my review, here on AAS and Ovi Gaming.
If there is one game that squawks “Mobile gaming is a big thing” then it’s Angry Birds. First available for iOS devices, it made its way to Symbian^3 before heading to Android devices, cuddly toys, sketches in Israeli topical comedy shows, and looks set to break into the home consoles during 2011. It’s no surprise that when Nokia wanted to make a visual statement at Nokia World that they 'got' gaming, they called The Birds onto the stage. Here's our look at the festive "bonus" edition of the title.
A year or so ago I had an epiphany. What i needed was an app to take all the updates and news that I'm interested in, and read it out to me, i.e. using voice, while I got on with chores/gardening/driving/shopping. I toyed with trying to write it myself and then trying to find someone else to write it, but got sidetracked. Interestingly, BlogRadio has now appeared, claiming to largely (though not totally) fill the need. How does it work and is it any good? Read on to find out!
Air Hockey might not be the first thing you think of when someone suggests a fast paced physics-based video game running on your phone. However, that's just what you get with Air Hockey Touch. Available for S60 5th Edition and Symbian^3 on the Ovi Store, either for £3 or in an ad-supported free version. I review this game to see how well it reproduces the real world experience of playing air hockey, all apart from the whoosh of air, of course!
